Imbolc

Imbolc

Today is Imbolc, by my reck­on­ing, halfway between Winter sol­stice and Spring equi­nox, and effect­ively the begin­ning of Spring – and didn’t we know it here in Mel­bourne with the lovely 19° day! I’ve tra­di­tion­ally (as in, the last few years) cel­eb­rated...

Protest…

So, one other thing. Today was Naga­saki day and as a result, the Hiroshima Day rally was held in the city. There were many, many young people wear­ing sweat­shirts with “Lebanon” writ­ten on the back and waving Lebanese flags. I was very...

Reflections on being

When I haven’t been catch­ing up on work recently, I’ve been watch­ing film fest­ival films. The week­end has been par­tic­u­larly reward­ing: I highly recom­mend Al Gore’s An Incon­veni­ent Truth about cli­mate change and global warm­ing which I saw...